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Run all tests without arguments #2028

@senyai

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@senyai

Hi! I find it confusing that the tests require arguments. I want to change it.

Here are my reasons:

  1. Not all tests check for required arguments
    bool found = false;
    for (int i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
    if (strcmp("--benchmark_filter=BM_NotChosen", argv[i]) == 0) {
    found = true;
    break;
    }
    }
    assert(found);
    and so it's easy to run a test incorrectly.
  2. There are GitHub issues mentioning that a test fails when the actual problem was that the correct arguments were not passed.
  3. Arguments need to be duplicated between test/CMakeLists.txt and test/BUILD and they are actually not in sync now (perf_counters_test is run with different arguments).

My solution:

  1. Create test/default_arguments.h:
// ...

void AddTestArguments(int &argc, char **&argv, std::initializer_list<char const*> args={}) {
  if (argc > 1) {
    std::cout << "Warning: User is not expected to pass any command line arguments\n";
  }
  static std::vector<char const*> new_argv;
  new_argv.insert(new_argv.end(), argv, argv + argc);
  new_argv.insert(new_argv.end(), args.begin(), args.end());
  new_argv.push_back("--benchmark_min_time=0.01s");
  argv = const_cast<char**>(new_argv.data());
  argc = static_cast<int>(new_argv.size());
}
  1. Call it after each main function like this
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  AddTestArguments(argc, argv, {"--benchmark_counters_tabular=true"});
  benchmark::MaybeReenterWithoutASLR(argc, argv);
  RunOutputTests(argc, argv);
}
  1. Cleanup the code

Sounds good?

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